- A Ukrainian drone attacked a Moscow refinery belonging to Gazpromneft.
- Sergej Sobyanin confirmed the attack and intervention of rescue services.
- The mayor of Moscow did not publish information about a possible disruption to the operation of the refinery.
A Ukrainian drone strike damaged equipment at a Moscow refinery owned by Gazpromneft. the mayor of the city, Sergej Sobyanin, said on Tuesday. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
“No one was injured. Emergency services are on the scene,” Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram platform. However, he did not say whether the operation of the refinery was disrupted. The largest plant in the Moscow region processed 11.6 million tons of crude oil and produced 2.9 million tons of gasoline and 3.2 million tons of diesel in 2024, according to available data.
Images of the refinery, from which the flames are coming, were published on the social network X Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. “This time the Moscow region felt the impact of Ukrainian long-range weapons,” he wrote on the video, which you can watch at the end of the article. “Russia must be forced to end the war against our people. And Ukraine’s long-range weapons are one of the important components of such pressure,” he added.
The number of drone attacks on Russian refineries has doubled since the beginning of the year, leading to a full or partial shutdown of oil processing and a drop in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel production. This follows from official data, social networks and Reuters calculations.
